PhilD wrote:
On Dec 2, 12:11 pm, wrote:
(PhilD) wrote:
What's with the cable tray? It looks like something that should be
hidden away, but got forgotten until too late!

They're all over King's Cross at present. I assume they are temporary
cable routes during the rebuilding work.


Thanks (and to Paul S). Perhaps somewhat naively, I thought the
building work was complete now that the site is open to the public.
Having a temporary cable route makes sense if it's not finished yet.


To be fair, the work on the new mainline station concourse is only getting
into top gear now, as planned, because it will sit on top of the Underground
concourse.

I'm sure someone will now come up with a whole load of reasons why the
mainline work could have started ages ago...

Paul S

In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

PhilD wrote:
On Dec 2, 12:11 pm, wrote:
(PhilD) wrote:
What's with the cable tray? It looks like something that should be
hidden away, but got forgotten until too late!

They're all over King's Cross at present. I assume they are temporary
cable routes during the rebuilding work.

Thanks (and to Paul S). Perhaps somewhat naively, I thought the
building work was complete now that the site is open to the public.
Having a temporary cable route makes sense if it's not finished yet.

To be fair, the work on the new mainline station concourse is only
getting into top gear now, as planned, because it will sit on top
of the Underground concourse.

I'm sure someone will now come up with a whole load of reasons why
the mainline work could have started ages ago...

It did of course. It's just taking longer!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:49:57 -0600,
wrote:

I looked at the new entrance to the tube at King's Cross this afternoon
and took a picture, uploaded to www.rosenstiel.co.uk/kxnewtube,jpg.

They seem to have created a new Underground line, the "City" line.


Or have they resurrected an old one ...

.... the City and South London Railway?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_an...London_Railway

David wrote:
On Dec 2, 9:19 am, PhilD wrote:
On Dec 2, 12:02 am, Robert Neville wrote:

wrote:

The sign directs passengers: "Underground - Circle, City,
Hammersmith and Metropolitan".

Corrected URL:www.rosenstiel.co.uk/kxnewtube.jpgKnewthat stealth
tunnel project would eventually get outed....

I think somebody told the signwriter that underground lines had to be
presented in alphabetical order, and the signwriter, seeing

Circle, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan

on his brief, and not knowing that the H&C was a single line,
corrected it to what you see there.

Cleverly deduced...

--
We are the Strasbourg. Referendum is futile.

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, David wrote:

On Dec 2, 9:19*am, PhilD wrote:
On Dec 2, 12:02*am, Robert Neville wrote:

wrote:
I looked at the new entrance to the tube at King's Cross this afternoon
and took a picture, uploaded towww.rosenstiel.co.uk/kxnewtube,jpg.

They seem to have created a new Underground line, the "City" line. The
sign directs passengers: "Underground - Circle, City, Hammersmith and
Metropolitan".

Corrected URL:www.rosenstiel.co.uk/kxnewtube.jpgKnewthat stealth tunnel
project would eventually get outed....

In fairness, that row of text does not say "line", so I wonder if
somewhere during the production stage it was intended to be
"Hammersmith this way; the circle this way; the city this way" etc.,
but the implementation has gone awry? *Either way, as you imply it's
incorrect (and inconsistent).

I think somebody told the signwriter that underground lines had to be
presented in alphabetical order, and the signwriter, seeing

Circle, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan

on his brief, and not knowing that the H&C was a single line,
corrected it to what you see there.

People who are not familiar with the Underground system often think that
the Hammermith and City line is two separate lines, especially when
included in a list.

I've even heard radio travel news presenters refer to it as though it's
two different lines.

"Delays occurring on the Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City
lines..." she said, at which I chuckled to myself.